License¶

QueryGym is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Apache License 2.0¶

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

See the full license text in the LICENSE file.

Third-Party Licenses¶

querygym depends on several open-source packages. Please refer to their respective licenses:

typer: MIT License
pyyaml: MIT License
openai: Apache License 2.0
tqdm: MIT License / MPL-2.0

Optional dependencies: - datasets (HuggingFace): Apache License 2.0 - beir: Apache License 2.0 - pyserini: Apache License 2.0

Prompt Bank License¶

The prompts in querygym/prompt_bank.yaml are licensed under CC-BY-4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).

You are free to: - Share — copy and redistribute the prompts - Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the prompts

Under the following terms: - Attribution — You must give appropriate credit to the original authors

Citation¶

If you use QueryGym in your research, please cite:

@misc{bigdeli2025querygymtoolkitreproduciblellmbased,
      title={QueryGym: A Toolkit for Reproducible LLM-Based Query Reformulation}, 
      author={Amin Bigdeli and Radin Hamidi Rad and Mert Incesu and Negar Arabzadeh and Charles L. A. Clarke and Ebrahim Bagheri},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2511.15996},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.IR},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15996}, 
}